Toy pistol



S'ept. 3, 1929. P. H. BERGER TOY PISTOL Filed Oct. 20. 1927 mbemoo PAUL H. BERGER A .w Wmv Patented Sept. 3, 1929.

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PAUL H. BERGER, BRONX, NEW YORK.

2 TOY PISTOL.

Application le.y October 20, 1927. Serial No. 227,528.

The present invention refers to toys and more particularly spoken of as toy guns of the pistol character, and its object is to provide an improved kind of a toy gun or pistol, in which by the action of a spring a missile is hurled away and at the same time a cartridge is fired so as to produce a most natural imitation of the real pistol action. Itis further an object of the present invention to simplify the construction of toy pistolsl of the class described so as to make them cheaper in the manufacture and at the same time more reliable in their action.

In order to carry out those purposes, an arm made out of a piece of resilient wire is fined with its looped front end. to the front end of the barrel imitating part of thebody of the toy pistols where as the rear-endv of this arm is shaped to form a sling, loop or ring to receive the missile which may be a coin or a ball or the like, and near to the rear-end the arm is provided with an arrest for the hook of the wire made trigger. Further it is an important feature of my invention that on the middle part of the top side of the barrel of the toy gun an arm is hinged adapted to swing round the hinging point and further adapted to limit the swing of the iirst mentioned resilient arm. Finally it is a characteristic feature of my invention that on the lmiddle part of the said swinging resilient arm and of the swinging end of the said limiting arm two pieces of fiatmetal or the like are Xed which are adapted to clash together at the end of the shooting swing of the first mentioned arm and to fire a paper cartridge f or fire cracker which may be placed on one of the two metal plates. f

In order to make more clear the nature of my invention, a preferred embodiment` of it is shown in the annexed drawing whereby the drawing shows in full lines the new toy gun in the position ready for firing, whereas the dotted lines show the position of different parts after the gun has been shot.

In the shown embodiment of my newand improved toy gun the main body is made out of wood or of metal as a single piece or in two or more parts which for instance may have the form of two flat shells of sheet metal which are aliixed together in the middle place of the toy. This main body consists of the handle 1 and the barrel-imitation part 2. At the front end of the latter is affixed the arm 3 made out of a resilient wire with a loop 4 near .its front end, to increase its resiliency. The

middle part of arm 3 is bent twice so as to form a double knee5whereas the rear endof the arm 3 is bent into the form of a ring 6, adapted to bear a rubber ball 7 or othersimilar missile. Near the closing point ofthe ring the end of the wire is bent into the shape of a sling or loop 8 and fastened to the arm 3 f hooked into the left side corner of the lower slot `11, whereas the right-side corner of this slot acts as the turning point or pivot of the trigger.

n the middle of the upper part of the side walls of the barrel arel provided with two depressed holes or grooves 16'into which engage the ends of the arm 17. This arm has the form of an elongated loop, which embraces the shooting arm 3, the ends of the arm being `hooked into the holes 16, whereas the swinging upper part is bent upwardly somewhat and provided with a piece of flat metal 18. rlhe double bent knee 5 is provided likewise with a piece of metal 19 preferably shaped so as to form a pan with a somewhat higher brim on which pan may be deposited the paper cartridge or lire cracker 20 tobe fired.

The before described construction results in the following operation of my improved toy gun: The resilient arm 3 is bent down over the barrel part 2 and lined in this tensioned position by hooking the sling 8 over the hook 14 of the trigger. Then 'the ball 7 is placed on the ring 6 and a p'aper cartridge or lire cracker 20 is put on the pan 19 whilst the arm 17 may be in the lowered position, as shown in Figure 1 in full lines. If then the trigger ring 10 is pulled into the position shown by dotted lines, then its longer arm 13 with the hook 14 swings to the left side and gives free the sling 8, whereupon the tensioned arm 3 snaps upwardly and hurls the ball 7 away towards the goal. The free swinging end of the arm 17 is likewise swung upwardly by the rising arm 3 until the movement of both parts is limited by the clashing together of the metallic hammer piece 18 and the metallic pan i9, as indicated in dotted ble change of the construction would consist f straightening out the double knee 5 and place the cartridge holding pan 19 on the middle part of a straight-shaped swinging arm; re# placing at theV same time the loop-formed douhlearm 17 by a simple one-stein arm which is guided in a hole inthe cartridge holding pan, the'free end of which one-stem arm hears the hammer or metal block for firing the cartridge.

What I claim is:

l. In a toy pistol: a barrel; a resilient arm aiixed to said barrel; a pan for holding papercartridges on said arm; a swinging arm hinged to the said barrel the end of which swinging arm coasts with said pan and at the same time limiting the upward movement oi said resilient arm when the' latter is released.

2. In a toy pistol: a barrel; a resilient arm aiizedto the said barrel; a swinging arm hinged to the said .barrel and adapted to limit the movement of the said resilient arm; a pan for holding a cartridge at the middle part o1E the resilient arm and a hammer like hloclrat the free end of the swinging arm; adapted to strike on the cartridge so as to re it when the resilient arm is released.

3. In a toy pistol: a barrel; a wire madel 4. In a toy pistol; a barrel; a resilient arm ailiXed to the said barrel; a loop-shaped swinging arm hinged to the barrel and embracing the said resilient arm so as to limit vits movement when 'it is released; and means on the said resilient arm coacting with means on the said swinging arm for firing a cartridge7 when the resilient arm is released.

5. In a toy pistol; a barrel; a wire made resilient arm aihxed to the front end of the barrel and extending along the upper side ol the said barrel; a ceiled loop in the arm near to its front end, to increase its resiliency; a shoulder formed in the middle part of the said arm; a loop shaped swinging arm7 hinged to the middle part of the barrel and embracing the said resilient arm so as to limit its movement when it is released; a cartridge holding pan on the shoulder of the resilient arm and a'hamrner like bloc-lr at the end or" the said swinging arm, adapted to clash together and to lire the cartridge7 when the resilient arm is released.

G. In a toy pistol: a barrel; a resilient arm aiiixed to the said barrel; a swinging arm hinged to the said barrel and adapted to limit the movement of the said resilient-arm; means on the said resilient arm coacting with means on the said swinging arm iior iiring a cartridge when the resilient arm is released; means at the free end of the' resilient arm for holding a missile and for hurling it away when the resilient arm is released.

7. In a toy pistol: a barrel; a resilient arm afiiied to the said barrel; a swinging arm hinged to the said barrel and adapted to limit the movement oi the said resilient arm; a wire made trigger at the lower side of the barrel7 adapted to hold the resilient arm in tensioned position or to release it; means on the said resilient arm coacting with means on the said swinging arm for firing a cartridge when the resilient arm is released; means at the tree-end oi the resilient arm for holding a missile and for hurling it away when the resilient arm is released. l

Signed at New York in the county or" Bronx and State ef New York this 18th day of August,A. D. 1927. PAUL H. BERGER. 

